I have talked in great length about how the fascistic Free Robert Latimer Movement has encourage the fascists to crawl out of their holes and come out in support of Robert Latimer. The ICL says, represented by one of their drones Andrew M. said that this says nothing about whether Robert Latimer welcomes their support. However I Workers' Vanguard, the ICL's main paper says something interesting "Britain: Labourites Whitewash Chauvinist Strikes"(WV No.937, 22 May 2009):
"Taaffe claims that the slogan “British jobs for British workers” was “a minor feature of the strike” (Socialism Today, March 2009) while a report on the Lindsey strike in the Socialist (5-11 February) says the BNP “have been bounced off from this strike.” This is hardly the point. Why did the BNP support the strike? The Socialist Party bears its share of responsibility for leading a chauvinist campaign that has the enthusiastic support of the fascist BNP!"
While's there's no denying that the Socialist Party and its anti-immigrant strikes are reactionary and appalling, they at the least "bounce off" the fascists who support their event. Robert Latimer, in contrast, has sat by while outright fascists make his case. He has never disavowed his support from fascists and has never stated categorically that the fascists don't represent him.
In contrast Robert Latimer is down right vitriolic towards those who protest his lynching of his disabled daughter. He describes disability rights activists as "abusive", he describes people who criticize him as "slanderers" and before his first trial said that anyone who supports the charges against him is a "torture monger".
Needless to say the ICL has a lot of explaining to do concerning their hopping in bed with fascists over the lynching of disabled children.
Comradely,
A Dedicated Trotskyist,
Michael Gregory
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